| From: | Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Vibhor Kumar <vibhor(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "<david(dot)sahagian(at)emc(dot)com>" <david(dot)sahagian(at)emc(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: COPY TO '|gzip > /my/cool/file.gz' |
| Date: | 2011-07-22 10:52:09 |
| Message-ID: | CAHnozTgDmYethXH57uKgmMR2juK8mHxTO3cg0uryvDQC_T7MEw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Vibhor Kumar
<vibhor(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> You can use STDOUT to pipe output to a shell command and STDIN to read input from shell command.
> Something like given below:
> psql -c "COPY mytable to STDOUT"|gzip >/home/tgl/mytable.dump.gz
>
> cat filename|psql -c "COPY mytable from STDIN;"
>
> OR psql -c "COPY mytable from STDIN;" < filename
nice one, that works great!
(zcat instead of cat, though)
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